Fun snacks:
Fishing Snack
Each child gets a plate of goldfish crackers. small thin pretzel rods, and a spoonfull of cream cheese or jam. Child uses the pretzel stick as a fishing rod--dip into the cream cheese or jam for "bait" and then pick up a fish to eat!
Noah's Ark
Each child gets a half a pita, and a few animal crackers. Child tucks the animals into the pita "ark" for a sandwich.
Fruit and Dip
Each child gets a dixie cup with a few spoonfuls of vanilla yogurt, to which they can add cinnamon, honey, or jam. Dip fruit into their own dip.
Cheese and Apple Sailboats
Cut a small apple into 4 wedges and remove the core. Cut 4 slices of your favorite cheese (or use presliced cheese). Trim cheese slices to make triangles resembling sails. Thread the cheese triangles on wooden toothpicks. Stick them into the apple wedges for sails.
Beach in a Bag Snack
Give each child a small ziploc bag.
Set out in bowls the following ingredients. Put a spoon in each bowl, and let the children transfer a spoonful to their bag. Serve with water!
Dry Chowmein noodles- (seaweed)
Pretzel sticks-(driftwood)
Goldfish Crackers- (fish)
Granola-(sand)
Cheerios- (life preservers)
Dried Apricots- (beach towels)
Raisins- (beach pebbles)
FRUIT SCULPTURES
Have on plates cut up pieces of banana, melon,
strawberries, and other soft fruit. Also have thin (mypreference is unsalted)pretzel sticks on plates.
Encourage the children to make ants, or suns, or
animals, or freeform sculptures using the pretzels poked into the fruit.
Pizza Dippers
Bread Sticks- (homemade, or made from commercial bread
dough)
Tomato Sauce
Shredded mozzerella cheese
Warm tomato sauce and bread sticks. Place the
ingredients on each child's plate. Let children dip
bread sticks into sauce, then into cheese. Eat!
Ladybug Snack
1 english muffin
cream cheese
red food coloring
raisins
Color the cream cheese with the red food coloring. Spread the colored cream
cheese onto the muffin half, add black raisin dots and eat the lady bug.
FRUIT FACE SNACK
Give each child a small paper plate and sliced fruit. Ask them to create themselves using the slices of fruit.
Example; grapes for eyes, sliced apple for eye brows, banana sliced lengthwise for a mouth and a kiwi slice for a nose.
BAGEL STEGOSAURUS-
Need- mini bagels, cream cheese, or peanut butter, or jam,
sliced strawberries, very thin long slices of carrot
1.Slice a mini bagel in half, then cut the pieces in half
again so you have 4 half circles. (Adult)
2. Give each child a bagel part, to be the
stegasuarus's body. Place on the plates so it is like
an upside down U.
3. Let the children use plastic knives to spread
peanut butter, or cream cheese, or jam all over the
bagel.
4. Let children arrange the strawberry slices on top
of the stegasaurus's back to look like his plates.
5. Arrange a carrot slice on one side to be the neck.
6. Arrange a strawberry on the carrot to be the head.
Eat!
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